On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tobias Scherbaum
<dertobi123@g.o> wrote:
> Santiago M. Mola wrote:
>
>> However, tracking the status of every patch since its inclusion in
>> portage until it's removed would be a huge work overhead... and I
>> doubt it's worthy.
>
> I don't think it's a huge work overhead, it'll take an additional minute
> per included patch to include a minimal description into the ebuild(s)
> and use a standardized header for the patch. Compared to the time one
> needs to spend when searching for information on that patch somewhen
> later on it's worth every minute.
>

Of course, puting a header with info in every patch is not a work
overhead and I'd say it should be policy. What I meant is that it's no
worth to track the status of every patch after it's added, as was
suggested.

Regards,
-- 
Santiago M. Mola
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